CLAAS is a family business founded in 1913. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Westphalia, is the European market leader in combined harvesters. CLAAS is also a top performer in world-wide agricultural engineering with tractors, ...

The usual business model in the lighting industry was to sell LED lights and other luminaries in retail shops. This has changed with the development of new business models, where products are leased but bought. The new type of business models has alre ...

New Institutional Economics is an economic school of thought which evolved in the 1970s and is an extension of neoclassical economics, which also incorporates institutions. Institutions mean in this context social and legal norms governing the economi ...

First stop in an expensive patent dispute July 1st. 2022, the Oslo District Court ruled in favor of Norwegian bindings and ski-companies Rottefella and Madshus in their patent case against Amer Sports (Salomon and Atomic). This very Norwegian case, co ...

A differentiation strategy calls for the development of a product or service that offers unique attributes customers perceive to be better than or different from the products of the competition. The value added by the uniqueness of the product may all ...

Like most creative works, it is an established principle that copyright protection is extended to photographs. The water becomes murkier when the photographs in question are of public figures because, in addition to copyright over the artistry of phot ...

The starting point of a company’s organization is the appropriate division of labor. The challenge is to quantitatively distribute the workload and qualitatively distribute the various requirements for the work to be performed. The division of labor c ...

The 5th module of the MIPLM program deals with human resource management (HRM), leadership and management control systems. The digital transformation is the next evolution level of industry. Companies demand a digitally adapted new kind of leadership ...

The knowledge-driven economy in front of businesses now sets new challenges. The complexity of technology is increasing. In such an economy, changes have become almost daily business, which makes the entire business environment very dynamic. So, the k ...

Mr. Kopf, you are an experienced patent attorney who is also involved a lot in international patent litigation, especially for large multinational corporations. Why do you think IP management is becoming increasingly important for companies and also f ...